The plastic body is lined with metal accents which add an overall rigidity to the card. The aesthetics are nice as well and the GTX 1070 FTW Gaming ACX 3.0 manages to appear sleek and robust without appearing ostentatious.

Specs

3DMark Score (Firestrike)15839

LOAD Temp (degrees C)75

IDLE Temp (degrees C)47

IDLE Noise Level (dbA)29.6

LOAD Noise Level (dbA)33.4

FPS 4K (Rise of the Tomb Raider)29min, 45avg

FPS 1440p (Doom)106avg

FPS 1080p (Hitman)66min, 108avg

3DMark Score (Firestrike)16529

LOAD Temp (degrees C)67

IDLE Temp (degrees C)37

IDLE Noise Level (dbA)33

LOAD Noise Level (dbA)42

FPS 4K (Rise of the Tomb Raider)39avg

FPS 1440p (Doom)102avg

FPS 1080p (Hitman)89avg

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Pros

Pro

Good build quality

The plastic body is lined with metal accents which add an overall rigidity to the card. The aesthetics are nice as well and the GTX 1070 FTW Gaming ACX 3.0 manages to appear sleek and robust without appearing ostentatious.

Pro

Compact size

With a length of 267mm and height of 128mm, the GTX 1070 FTW is one of the most compact 1070 cards available.

Pro

Lots of headroom to overclock and tweak

The FTW ACX 3.0 leaves a lot of room for tweaking. You can overclock for up to +147MHz Core and +176MHz Memory without adding any additional voltage.

Pro

Best bang for your buck

Priced at $399.99 it's one of the cheapest GTX 1070 cards on the market. Its relative high power (backed by multiple benchmarks, most notably a 3DMark Firestrike score of 16529) coupled with the relative low price make the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming one of the best graphics cards when considering the quality-price ratio.

Pro

Can easily fit in any chassis

At roughly 28cm in length, it has a pretty compact body and can fit without any trouble in any decent chassis.

Cons

Con

The cooler could be better

EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW Gaming ACX 3.0 does not do a good job at keeping cool temperatures. It's usually around 47 degrees C when idle, which is 8 degrees higher than what the reference card manages to achieve at low usage and 75 degrees C under load. This admittedly is lower than that of the reference card but still higher than any other custom GTX 1070 card.

Con

Can easily trap heat

The 1070 G1 Gaming has a metal back-plate which covers the back of the card. However, it does not have any ventilation gaps or holes. This can easily create issues with heat being trapped inside the card.

Con

Even though the fans that the GTX 1070 G1 Gaming uses are excellent, the lack of proper ventilation holes in the backplate make it very easy to trap heat inside the card. To compensate for that you need to make sure that there's proper ventilation inside the chassis.